Alexandre Muñiz

"The arc of the moral universe is short, and heading straight to hell." Abraham Lincoln, 1855

There are 22 ways to connect two half-weight cells to a tromino. To get a proper generalized tiling where all cells have weight 1, the half-weight cells must overlap. Here they are tiling a 11×8 rectangle such that that the overlaps form a single loop. #TilingTuesday

I highly recommend this series if you like fluffy fantasy with sapphic romance and a deeply worked out system of gods and associated divine magic.

Oh, life
It's bigger,
It's bigger than you and you are not me,
The lengths that I will go to,
The distance in your eyes.
Oh no, I've said too much,
I set it up.

Planned Bus and MAX Service Cuts Due to a growing budget gap, we must cut some TriMet service starting in November 2025.

Portland: Highly damaging transit service cuts may be coming in the next year. Still no sign of a plan on how to prevent them.

No, there is not a lot of waste in the system; almost all service is justified by ridership or equity (we did that work).

trimet.org/servicecuts/...

tax the empty (lots)

Image depicts a young man wearing a blue jacket and holding a puppy.

Mathematics can free minds in the tightest of constraints.

"Every time I opened a textbook or read a research paper, every day I stayed clean, every time I showed compassion to the people around me, I was fighting a system that wanted me to fail."

Read: www.prisonmathproject.org/blog/the-pri...

Ring that expanded

Part 158 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

16th century German ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere

The album cover to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays, with fossil ammonite shells or similar in black and white

Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints came out that year, but Graceland was better. So I got nothing. Wait, hold the presses. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic was a 1990 album and not a 1989 one? That's an easy choice then.

There's a Tom Grant album from that year, but I didn't bother to keep it. I listened to Everything But The Girl's album Language of Life a lot back then, but the best I can say for it is it got me into EBTG, who started doing more musically interesting things right when I was ready to hear them.

...so a lot of stuff I listened to fell on the wrong side of that, never got ripped to mp3s, and drifted away from me. And finally, 1990 was the peak of my "smooth jazz" phase, which I have since recovered from.

There's a "What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?" meme going around, and for various reasons, that was a terrible year to pick. Many bands I still like had a 1989 album followed by a '91 or '92 album. 1990 hits right at the cassette / CD transition... 1/2

My highest claim to hipster cred is seeing Colin Meloy perform prior to the Decemberists.

Aw. I have fond memories of singing madrigals in the metal silo outside of the Newport brewery. Amazing acoustics.

Even during my Gen-X childhood in the 80's, there was a whites only county one county away from me in the northern Atlanta suburbs.

I do wish I could, but I have a full day rehearsal for the Midwinter Revels. Boo.

I'm kicking myself a little for not getting it when I was eligible, but whatever, the abstinence method works.

Sorry. I sort of skimmed the middle of that thread.

Two-cube calendar - Wikipedia

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cub...

My solution for numbers with fewer than three digits would be to hide the extra blocks behind the sign.

There are 20 ways (up to rotation and reflection) to make polyiamonds where each cell edge has one or two notches, and the total number of notches on the perimeter is 7. These have a total of 81 cells, and tile a triangle nicely. #TilingTuesday

This is how you get "С лёгким паром!"

I would have thought kids would love the house that gives out boxes. Almost as good as the potato house.

I recall that folks living near Chernobyl learned that very little radioactive material gets incorporated into apples, so it's probably fine!

Wrong way around.

I've spent a not entirely negligible portion of my life on the 35 bus.

Sorry! 🙃

How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer Turning "cold" tumors "hot"

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

Remember during the Clinton/GWB transition, when some outgoing Clinton staffer removed the W keys from some keyboards in the White House and folks were mad, because those were the people's keyboards?

It's true. I said a stupid reply guy thing once and I had to hide in shame for months.